How do competitive pressures affect incentives to innovate when there is a market for inventions?

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1007-1054

  Spulber, Daniel F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; INCENTIVE; INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; PRESSURE EFFECT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84893508547     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: 1537534X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674134     Document Type: Article

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